When you wrote paper number two on the definition of a word, what specific argument strategies did you use? Why did you choose these specific strategies? Did you feel that they helped you organize your argument, or did using them make it more difficult for you to write? Why do you think this was so? How do you feel about your logos, pathos, and ethos in this piece?
I really don't believe that I used a specific strategy. Not saying that I didn't use on I kind of fuzed a few together. Because I did use Illustration because I show'd how America is not free by explaining the fact that some on had to work at it. I guess I also compared too thing to prove my definiation if the word free. So I guess I do use a couple straight forward but Other than that they are all just thrown in to each other. I kind of think that use a certain type would make it a lot harder to write because you will have to think more than normally and I don't need to think more when writing my papers. I think way too much. I need to learn just to write and not stop and think and edit and think and write some more. It takes me way to long to write a paper because I think too much. I really think that my papers so far are crap I really need to think about them more and actually work on them instead of just writing and making crap for it. I guess what they say is true " You are your Greatest Critic" So Yeah I do think that my paper could be better and I also think that They will be better coming up because I am getting in the School mood again.
M. Jacob Dayringer
Mrs. Wendt
English 101.02
1st February, 2008
Brute… Doc or Patient
Brute: a brutal, insensitive, or crude person, according to Dictionary.com. But that is not what it really means. A brute is a person who acts with force without any thought, and is in a normal state of mind. In Richard Selzer’s story “Brute” neither the patient –who came in intoxicated- nor the doctor –sewed the patient’s ear to the table- are brutes. Being a brute means you have to be in the normal state of mind and then you have to act out using force without thinking.
So for an example, let’s say someone is walking in a store. Everything has been going great and nothing has gone wrong today. Yet, this person snapped and threw an object at the person who accidentally ran into them. This person was normal and was in a normal state of mind. Then she acted with force without thinking.
The doctor did act out in force, but the deciding factor in it all was that he was up for 24 hours working. He was “awake all night with a patient who has been bleeding from a peptic ulcer of his stomach”.(Selzer 1) If your doctor was up all night of course he was not in the right start of mind. He also was there all “day and night [with ] stabbings, heart attacks and automobile accidents”.(Selzer 1) Yes, doctors have to work long sifts, but working for twenty four hours will put you into a non-normal state of mind. He even states himself that “[he] was tired. … to the bone”.(Selzer 2)
On to the patient who was brought in to the hospital. The patient could be seen as a brute because he was defiant of the doctor, he basically dragged the police into the hospital, and he wouldn’t stop flaying his head, but still again he was not in the right state of mind. The patient was “hugely drunk” and as you know when you are drunk you are not in the normal state of mind.(Selzer 1) Also this man must have been in a fight or something because when he came in he had a “ laceration … to the bone”.(Selzer 1) This laceration was big and he had “ bloody spume flying from his head”.(Selzer 1) With being heavily drunk and on top of that having a huge laceration that was pouring out blood of course this man is not in the right state of mind.
So as you can see neither of these men were in the right state of mind. So they could not be seen as a brute. I am not saying that either one of them were in the wrong because both of them have were in the wrong. The doctor abused his power of being a doctor by sewing his ears to the table. Then the patient was because he was being defiant and dragged the policemen through the hospital doors . Both the doctor and the patient could have been better, but that doesn’t make them a brute.
A brute needs to be in the right state of mind. Other wise the person is just a person acting out because they are mad. Again the doctor was an idiot because he sewed the patient ear to the gurney and the patient was just heavily drunk and in a lot of pain. This doesn’t excuse there action it just proves that they aren’t brutes.
(mycology) Not attached to the stipe. In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.
1/26/08
Journal # 2
I'm Very disappointed with this paper. Its is defiantly a rough draft of the is paper. I know I need to work on all three logos, pathos, and ethos. One I need to show more examples and stop repeating myself. I also need to work more critically and all at the same time. I have a problem will Writing bull and getting my way through a paper sometimes and this paper is one of those times. One because I didn't quote the artcile, two I did not use a dash or double dash and three I threw it all together at the last minute. Maybe I should just start this paper all over because I think it is crap. I am willing to admit that It sucked.
In Dennis Baron’s article “Jose can you see? National anthem in Spanish--but will kids dance to it?” dated Aug. 18th 2006 he discusses the
controversy over translating and singing the National anthem in Spanish or any other language. He explains why we shouldn’t care if the National anthem
is translated into any other language. He brings in points that support his purpose saying that we let other important documents get translated even the
declaration of independence got translated into French.
He does have a good point, but I disagree with him. The article is very well written with some support (could use more) but he needs to work on his ethos. This is the second article that I have read from him and I still don’t trust him. I can see where he is coming from and he did move me when he stated “We freely translate our most sacred religious texts into the vernacular because few of us can read the original Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic, or Latin with any degree of understanding” because he appeals to my emotions(pathos) by bringing in religion into a supposedly non-religious topic.
Even though I do not trust him I can see some of his logic. Such as “But foreign languages were not a problem for the nation’s founders, who chose the Latin E pluribus unum, ‘from many, one,’ as the national motto” it shows that he did his work on the subject and really might have some passion for the topic. Yet, in the same sense it makes him move distrusting because you never no know if he made it up or not. Overall the article proves it point, that we shouldn’t care if the Star Spangled Banner was translated and sung in Spanish.
1/15/08
In the past you have probably never paid attention to whether or not you were appealing to your readers' logic, emotion, or character. Go back and think of times when you have written and have done so. Do you have an idea of how to appeal to your reader? What of these three appeals will you need to work on the most? Are you good at giving examples? Are you pretty logical? Do you know how to sound like a good, moral person?
Well I really never thought of it in the way of logos, pathos, and ethos. I just thought of it as writing. So I guess that I have down it before because you need to have it if you want good writing. I really think the one that I would have to work on would have to be ethos because no one ever knows who you are actually talking to. It all depends on the kind of person if they are going to trust you or not. So that is what I think would be the hardest to do.
Also sounding like a good moral person might be hard. It would be even harder if you had a topic that was really opinionated. So you would really have to work on sounding like a good person. Hopefully if you are a good person it will just come through in your writing and you won't really have to work on it. Giving examples of logos, pathos, and ethos is harder than I thought. Since I never thought of them in that way I guess I don't know when I used them in the past. But I must have at least one time or the other. Because I have appealed to my readers in many ways before. I guess the one that sticks out in my mind is the paper on my horrible car crash. When I described the way the glass broke across the windshield and the ear shattering sound it made. so I guess that could be pathos because I tried to make them hear the sound and feel sympathy for me.
Give good examples was always a problem for me. I could show what I mean but it was never enough. So I guess I will have to work on it more this semester. I am sure that with the more practice I do this will become easier and easier. Well at least I hope. Maybe this semester will be the semester that I learn to make my papers stand out. Maybe they will be very thoughtful and have a lot of critical thought. You never know until I actually go though will it.
Questions 1/8/08
1. Is teaching children that someone with an accent is bad English a form of racism? If so why or why not?
2. Is there a ten commandments(from the bible) of grammar? Should we have to follow this rules?
3. Why is it that English is one of the top languages? Is it because other want to learn it or is it because we are too lazy to learn other language?
3/5/08
Sorry it is A little later than I have planed I just got Home
2/17/08
2/9/08
2/5/08
When you wrote paper number two on the definition of a word, what specific argument strategies did you use? Why did you choose these specific strategies? Did you feel that they helped you organize your argument, or did using them make it more difficult for you to write? Why do you think this was so? How do you feel about your logos, pathos, and ethos in this piece?
I really don't believe that I used a specific strategy. Not saying that I didn't use on I kind of fuzed a few together. Because I did use Illustration because I show'd how America is not free by explaining the fact that some on had to work at it. I guess I also compared too thing to prove my definiation if the word free. So I guess I do use a couple straight forward but Other than that they are all just thrown in to each other. I kind of think that use a certain type would make it a lot harder to write because you will have to think more than normally and I don't need to think more when writing my papers. I think way too much. I need to learn just to write and not stop and think and edit and think and write some more. It takes me way to long to write a paper because I think too much. I really think that my papers so far are crap I really need to think about them more and actually work on them instead of just writing and making crap for it. I guess what they say is true " You are your Greatest Critic" So Yeah I do think that my paper could be better and I also think that They will be better coming up because I am getting in the School mood again.
2/1/08
1/30/08
M. Jacob Dayringer
Mrs. Wendt
English 101.02
1st February, 2008
Brute… Doc or Patient
Brute: a brutal, insensitive, or crude person, according to Dictionary.com. But that is not what it really means. A brute is a person who acts with force without any thought, and is in a normal state of mind. In Richard Selzer’s story “Brute” neither the patient –who came in intoxicated- nor the doctor –sewed the patient’s ear to the table- are brutes. Being a brute means you have to be in the normal state of mind and then you have to act out using force without thinking.
So for an example, let’s say someone is walking in a store. Everything has been going great and nothing has gone wrong today. Yet, this person snapped and threw an object at the person who accidentally ran into them. This person was normal and was in a normal state of mind. Then she acted with force without thinking.
The doctor did act out in force, but the deciding factor in it all was that he was up for 24 hours working. He was “awake all night with a patient who has been bleeding from a peptic ulcer of his stomach”.(Selzer 1) If your doctor was up all night of course he was not in the right start of mind. He also was there all “day and night [with ] stabbings, heart attacks and automobile accidents”.(Selzer 1) Yes, doctors have to work long sifts, but working for twenty four hours will put you into a non-normal state of mind. He even states himself that “[he] was tired. … to the bone”.(Selzer 2)
On to the patient who was brought in to the hospital. The patient could be seen as a brute because he was defiant of the doctor, he basically dragged the police into the hospital, and he wouldn’t stop flaying his head, but still again he was not in the right state of mind. The patient was “hugely drunk” and as you know when you are drunk you are not in the normal state of mind.(Selzer 1) Also this man must have been in a fight or something because when he came in he had a “ laceration … to the bone”.(Selzer 1) This laceration was big and he had “ bloody spume flying from his head”.(Selzer 1) With being heavily drunk and on top of that having a huge laceration that was pouring out blood of course this man is not in the right state of mind.
So as you can see neither of these men were in the right state of mind. So they could not be seen as a brute. I am not saying that either one of them were in the wrong because both of them have were in the wrong. The doctor abused his power of being a doctor by sewing his ears to the table. Then the patient was because he was being defiant and dragged the policemen through the hospital doors . Both the doctor and the patient could have been better, but that doesn’t make them a brute.
A brute needs to be in the right state of mind. Other wise the person is just a person acting out because they are mad. Again the doctor was an idiot because he sewed the patient ear to the gurney and the patient was just heavily drunk and in a lot of pain. This doesn’t excuse there action it just proves that they aren’t brutes.
1/27/08
FREE
Etymology
Middle English fre < Old English frēo.1/26/08
Journal # 2
I'm Very disappointed with this paper. Its is defiantly a rough draft of the is paper. I know I need to work on all three logos, pathos, and ethos. One I need to show more examples and stop repeating myself. I also need to work more critically and all at the same time. I have a problem will Writing bull and getting my way through a paper sometimes and this paper is one of those times. One because I didn't quote the artcile, two I did not use a dash or double dash and three I threw it all together at the last minute. Maybe I should just start this paper all over because I think it is crap. I am willing to admit that It sucked.
1/24/08
1/20/08
Jose can you SEE?
In Dennis Baron’s article “Jose can you see? National anthem in Spanish--but will kids dance to it?” dated Aug. 18th 2006 he discusses the
controversy over translating and singing the National anthem in Spanish or any other language. He explains why we shouldn’t care if the National anthem
is translated into any other language. He brings in points that support his purpose saying that we let other important documents get translated even the
declaration of independence got translated into French.
He does have a good point, but I disagree with him. The article is very well written with some support (could use more) but he needs to work on his ethos. This is the second article that I have read from him and I still don’t trust him. I can see where he is coming from and he did move me when he stated “We freely translate our most sacred religious texts into the vernacular because few of us can read the original Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic, or Latin with any degree of understanding” because he appeals to my emotions(pathos) by bringing in religion into a supposedly non-religious topic.
Even though I do not trust him I can see some of his logic. Such as “But foreign languages were not a problem for the nation’s founders, who chose the Latin E pluribus unum, ‘from many, one,’ as the national motto” it shows that he did his work on the subject and really might have some passion for the topic. Yet, in the same sense it makes him move distrusting because you never no know if he made it up or not. Overall the article proves it point, that we shouldn’t care if the Star Spangled Banner was translated and sung in Spanish.
1/15/08
In the past you have probably never paid attention to whether or not you were appealing to your readers' logic, emotion, or character. Go back and think of times when you have written and have done so. Do you have an idea of how to appeal to your reader? What of these three appeals will you need to work on the most? Are you good at giving examples? Are you pretty logical? Do you know how to sound like a good, moral person?
Well I really never thought of it in the way of logos, pathos, and ethos. I just thought of it as writing. So I guess that I have down it before because you need to have it if you want good writing. I really think the one that I would have to work on would have to be ethos because no one ever knows who you are actually talking to. It all depends on the kind of person if they are going to trust you or not. So that is what I think would be the hardest to do.
Also sounding like a good moral person might be hard. It would be even harder if you had a topic that was really opinionated. So you would really have to work on sounding like a good person. Hopefully if you are a good person it will just come through in your writing and you won't really have to work on it. Giving examples of logos, pathos, and ethos is harder than I thought. Since I never thought of them in that way I guess I don't know when I used them in the past. But I must have at least one time or the other. Because I have appealed to my readers in many ways before. I guess the one that sticks out in my mind is the paper on my horrible car crash. When I described the way the glass broke across the windshield and the ear shattering sound it made. so I guess that could be pathos because I tried to make them hear the sound and feel sympathy for me.
Give good examples was always a problem for me. I could show what I mean but it was never enough. So I guess I will have to work on it more this semester. I am sure that with the more practice I do this will become easier and easier. Well at least I hope. Maybe this semester will be the semester that I learn to make my papers stand out. Maybe they will be very thoughtful and have a lot of critical thought. You never know until I actually go though will it.
Questions 1/8/08
1. Is teaching children that someone with an accent is bad English a form of racism? If so why or why not?
2. Is there a ten commandments(from the bible) of grammar? Should we have to follow this rules?
3. Why is it that English is one of the top languages? Is it because other want to learn it or is it because we are too lazy to learn other language?